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Rollins signs on to run Huckabee campaign
Boston Globe ^
| 12/14/07
| Foon Rhee
Posted on 12/14/2007 7:20:26 AM PST by pissant
Mike Huckabee, whose rise in the polls hadn't been matched by a surge in his campaign apparatus, is about to get some major help on that front.
The HiIl and CNN are reporting on their websites today that Ed Rollins, the mastermind of Ronald Reagan's 1984 landslide reelection and of Ross Perot's independent bid in 1992, will sign on as Huckabee's national campaign chairman.
The move is expected to be announced at a press conference this afternoon in Concord, N.H.
Rollins, a veteran Republican strategist, told CNN that he has been out of the game, but became more and more impressed with Huckabee and decided to make this his last campaign. Huckabee has overtaken Mitt Romney in the polls in Iowa and has surged to second in national polls behind Rudy Giuliani.
"The struggle now is to take it beyond Iowa and go nationally, and what you have is a growing candidacy, and I think I can help," Rollins told CNN.
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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: huckabee
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Rollins, you picked a dud.
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posted on
12/14/2007 7:20:27 AM PST
by
pissant
To: Eric Blair 2084; flashbunny; NeoCaveman; SoConPubbie; Esther Ruth; pissant; pandoraou812; ...
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posted on
12/14/2007 7:22:25 AM PST
by
OB1kNOb
(Support Duncan Hunter for the 2008 GOP presidential nominee. He is THE true conservative candidate.)
To: pissant
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posted on
12/14/2007 7:22:59 AM PST
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: pissant
I thought it was about Henry Rollins.
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posted on
12/14/2007 7:23:50 AM PST
by
Perdogg
(Elections have consequences)
To: pissant
I am going to have to get back on my indigestion medication.
I have a new illness “huckayuck”.
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posted on
12/14/2007 7:24:19 AM PST
by
dforest
(Duncan Hunter is the best hope we have on both fronts.)
To: Perdogg
I thought it might be this guy...
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posted on
12/14/2007 7:25:19 AM PST
by
pissant
(Duncan Hunter: Warrior, Statesman, Conservative)
To: pissant
Ed Rollins (born March 19, 1943).
Huh, I expected him to be much older.
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posted on
12/14/2007 7:25:48 AM PST
by
donna
(...gay couples raising kids. That's the American way... -Mitt Romney)
To: pissant
I’m getting sick of all the Huckstrubating going on.
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posted on
12/14/2007 7:26:12 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Only one consistent conservative in this race and his name is Hunter.)
To: Ann Archy
His calim to fame was Reagan’s re-election. Reagan could have had a turnip for campaign manager and still crushed Mondale.
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posted on
12/14/2007 7:26:44 AM PST
by
pissant
(Duncan Hunter: Warrior, Statesman, Conservative)
To: pissant
Rollins took the only job offer available.
And Huckabee took the only ‘name’ willing to sign on.
A match made in political mediocrity ‘heaven’ if ever there was one.
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posted on
12/14/2007 7:27:04 AM PST
by
Badeye
(Free Willie!)
To: Perdogg
Then Huck’s Campaign Theme Song would be “Liar.”
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posted on
12/14/2007 7:27:23 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(11+7+15=3 Heismans)
To: cripplecreek
huckster is a putrid liberal... his very name disgusts me.
LLS
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posted on
12/14/2007 7:27:53 AM PST
by
LibLieSlayer
(Support America, Kill terrorists, Destroy dims and vote Fred!)
To: pissant
To: dfwgator
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posted on
12/14/2007 7:30:28 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Only one consistent conservative in this race and his name is Hunter.)
To: pissant
Just another pundit who never cared if the borders were secure.
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posted on
12/14/2007 7:31:47 AM PST
by
AuntB
(" It takes more than walking across the border to be an American." Duncan Hunter)
To: Perdogg
Isn’t Ed Rollins the lead singer of “Collective Soul?”
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posted on
12/14/2007 7:33:35 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(11+7+15=3 Heismans)
To: pissant
The Chamber of Commerce must be behind Huckabee, since he is the candidate of continuing illegal slave labor.
To: pissant
Ed Rollins, the mastermind of Ronald Reagan's 1984 landslide reelection and of Ross Perot's independent bid in 1992,So he helped a Clinton get elected. Is he looking to repeat that?
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posted on
12/14/2007 7:34:38 AM PST
by
truthluva
("Character is doing the right thing even when no one is looking" - JC Watts)
To: pissant
That’s who I was hoping for - the “Saxophone Colossus”
To: dfwgator
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posted on
12/14/2007 7:36:50 AM PST
by
RockinRight
(Fred Thompson spells gravitas B-A-L-L-S-O-F-S-T-E-E-L.)
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